Following Russia’s attack on Ukraine, Finland and Sweden had applied to join NATO, which was opposed by Turkey, which asked them to lift the arms export embargo and agree to extradite Kurdish militants residing in both countries.
The memorandum states that “Finland and Sweden will not provide support” to the Kurdish militias, “confirm that the PKK is a proscribed terrorist organization” and that they will not apply any type of embargo to Turkey.
The accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO “shows Putin that we are ready to act” and that “any country has the freedom to choose its future,” Stoltenberg said. Now the 30 NATO allies must ratify the accession in their respective parliaments.
The NATO summit in Madrid will approve “a new strategic concept”, something that “has not been produced since the Second World War”, and which will set the guidelines for the Alliance’s action for the next ten years, said its Secretary General.
In addition, they will give the green light to “a comprehensive aid package for Ukraine to exercise its right to self-defense”, because that country “is facing a brutality that we have not seen in Europe since the Second World War”.
On the table, in addition to the war in Ukraine, will be the increase of the allied countries in their investment in military spending:
“We are facing a more dangerous world, so we will have to invest more,” Stoltenberg said.
The objective of the meeting, pointed out the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, “is to convey a message of unity on the part of the allies” and “to strengthen an Atlantic Alliance that after the invasion of Russia has become more evident in its validity in the present and in the future”.
As for the threats, Sánchez called for “eyes” on the southern flank, “particularly in the Sahel zone”, a request that the Spanish government has been making.
Felipe VI stressed that NATO is “a benchmark of freedom”. “Unity and freedom are strategic values” in a world where the struggle between “democracy and autocracy, tendencies that are not limited to the Euro-Atlantic space” has been reactivated, he added.
The monarch offered a dinner at the Royal Palace to the leaders of the countries that are part of NATO, as well as a dozen invited countries. It was the dinner at the Royal Palace with the largest number of world leaders in its history, a total of 56.
The presidents of Turkey, Sweden and Finland did not attend the dinner, nor did Stoltenberg, as they were negotiating the lifting of the Turkish veto at the time.
Source: Ambito
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